Tullio Solenghi: "He's a brother to the Trio. Massimo Lopez and I visited him in January."

"In January, Massimo Lopez and I went to visit him. Pippo was already suffering from the illness, he could barely speak, but I remember it as a moment of great tenderness. For us, he was always a sort of playmate, an older brother. His human side is what hurts me the most in these moments, even though we were more or less fearing and waiting for the news of his death. The moments we shared, and when we hugged each other at the end, and everyone felt that perhaps it would be the last time, are something I carry with me today." Tullio Solenghi, who, along with Anna Marchesini and Massimo Lopez, founded the comedy trio that accompanied Baudo in many shows, remembered Pippo Baudo this way to Rainews24. "I remember when we involved him in our Promessi Sposi, it was a sort of compensation for what he had done to us."